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US extends non-essential travel restrictions with Canada and Mexico
CNN ^ | Updated 8:51 AM ET, Fri August 20, 2021 | Priscilla Alvarez, CNN

Posted on 08/20/2021 6:38:13 AM PDT by deport

The US is extending non-essential travel restrictions at its land borders with Canada and Mexico through at least September 21, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday, citing the Delta variant of the coronavirus.

"In coordination with public health and medical experts, DHS continues working closely with its partners across the United States and internationally to determine how to safely and sustainably resume normal travel," the department tweeted.

The US has been limiting non-essential travel along both borders since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and extending those restrictions on a monthly basis. The restrictions don't apply to cross-border trade, US citizens and lawful permanent residents, as well as people traveling for medical purposes or to attend school, among others.

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1 posted on 08/20/2021 6:38:13 AM PDT by deport
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To: deport
You can't travel to Mexico but you can sneak into America from Mexico and be welcomed with open arms, a comfort pack and some Kamala cookies.
2 posted on 08/20/2021 6:39:51 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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Absolutely nuts.

Open the border to illegal aliens, over a million so far, with supposedly 19% infected with Covid.

But do not allow tourists and other ordinary border crossers to do so.

It is insane.

3 posted on 08/20/2021 6:41:17 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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These people really are A-holes.

I have about 10 friends who flew into Mexico in the last week and most are there til tomorrow.

They’ve been there a week .

But, land crossing is bad ...

Ridiculous


4 posted on 08/20/2021 6:50:10 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: marktwain

Agreed, I am certainly not amused with this as they won’t let me and others go to northern New York state (Ogdensburg, Watertown, Syracuse) to shop or in my case, go to a U.S. post box to pick up items. But they will certainly let illegals come up and spread COVID.


5 posted on 08/20/2021 6:50:15 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: OttawaFreeper

Some animals are just more equal than others. And the pigs are the most equal of them all.


6 posted on 08/20/2021 6:56:13 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Vigilanteman

From The Daily Mail, Aug. 16th 2021:

Hillary Clinton has headed up to Quebec for the week, where she is enjoying a family vacation with Bill, Chelsea and her husband Marc Mezvinsky, and her two young grandchildren Charlotte and Aidan.


7 posted on 08/20/2021 7:18:58 AM PDT by Do_Tar (I wish I was kidding.)
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I don’t think this can be true. I live a block and a half away from Matamoros, Tamaulipas Mexico and I pass through their customs multiple times weekly. I don’t even need a passport. Only American customs needs ID. No one ever told us anything about not crossing.


8 posted on 08/20/2021 7:20:28 AM PDT by This_Dude
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To: deport

CNN, seriously?


9 posted on 08/20/2021 7:26:48 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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“Aw shucks. We would love to take the onslaught of Afghan refugees and Honduran, Guatemalan, Mexican, Salvadoran, Haitian, Ugandan, Syrian, Chinese, “asylum seekers” but, you know... COVID” - Canada


10 posted on 08/20/2021 8:14:48 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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Well, that’ll sure put a stop to illegals. Not.


11 posted on 08/20/2021 8:31:25 AM PDT by bgill (.Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: liberalh8ter

You can’t travel to Mexico but you can sneak into America from Mexico and be welcomed with open arms, a comfort pack and some Kamala cookies.


And then shipped into the heartland.


12 posted on 08/20/2021 8:51:07 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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